While the American Founding Fathers recognized the hand of God in bringing forth the foundational principles upon which the government of the United States of America was originally established, they were also well-read students of history and political philosophy. They were familiar with the concepts of government brought forth by the ancient Israelites, the Greeks, and the Romans, and most especially the political thought found in the scriptures. Therein they found many worthy concepts. They had also studied and rejected the foolish dogma of elite social-organizers such as Plato and the drivel of early godless socialistic-humanists such as Jean-Jacques Rousseau, the “godfather” of the debauchery of the French Revolution. But they found value in the concepts brought forth by other thinkers of their century. Among those whom the American founders studied were Baron de Montesquieu (The Spirit of the Laws) and Englishman Sir William Blackstone (Commentaries on the Laws of England), whose writings on political thought were published in the decades prior to the establishment of the United States.
This presentation will review some of Montesquieu’s and Blackstone’s magnificent foundational principles which found their way into the American Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution. America’s continued liberty depends upon the restoration of these principles, which have been abandoned by the people of today and their pandering “leaders.”
